Join Lachie Avil and Christian Montegan for a discussion on how the introduction of the AFC Nations League could lead to a much needed redesign of the Asian international football calendar.
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Join Lachie Avil, Chris Macpherson and Jacob Stevens for your A-League Round 9 Debrief. The Jets and Phoenix both show that they're capable of when they're on song, Adelaide scrape past a late Glory surge and Grimaldi fires home late on to give Victory their Melbourne Derby win. Elsewhere, the AFC announce their plans in principle to introduce an Asian Nations league and the Serie A Milan vs Como saga continues as the match now appears to be back on!
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Join Lachie Avil, Jacob Stevens and Poletti as the APL confirm the appointment of their new CEO, former Fremantle Dockers and Victorian Racing Club executive, Steve Rosich.
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Join Lachlan Avil and Christian Montegan for the latest episode of the Round Ball Australia podcast. There's Nikos Vergos' brace in the Original Rivalry, the North Terrace's call out of the state of the club, Glory's streak comes to an end and Brisbane's grit.
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Join Lachie Avil, Christian Montegan and Jacob Stevens as Western United have another hearing with the Australian Tax Office in relation to their $15.5m tax debt, the Serie A match slated for Perth between AC Milan and Como is in fresh doubt, Melbourne City earn a tough point in Asia and your A-League round 8 look.
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Join Lachie Avil, Matt Olsen and Jacob Stevens as South Melbourne become the inaugural winners of the Australian Championship, Adam Griffiths delivers one of the most bewildering press conference moments of all time and all the rest of your A-League round 7 debrief.
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Join Lachie Avil, Matt Olsen and Christian Montegan as the Socceroos learn their opponents for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage!
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In this episode of the Round Ball Australia podcast Lachie Avil, Christian Montegan and Jacob Stevens discuss the PFA's annual A-League Men's report, which reads more like a call to arms than a catchup.
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Join Lachie Avil, Christian Montegan, Will Booth and Jacob Stevens as they look back at Anthony Pantazopoulos' very eventful week with the Sydney Derby, discuss Alen Stajcic's fascinating post match comments about positivity around football and the rest of the round 6 A-League action.
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Join Lachie Avil, Poletti and Matt Olsen off the back of a fabulous week for Australian teams in the AFC Champions League competitions. FIFA announce the mechanisms for next week's World Cup draw and we look forwards to round 6 in the A-League!
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Join Lachie Avil and Matt Olsen on the night that Melbourne City won their THIRD consecutive Asian Champions League Elite match!
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Join Jacob Stevens, Lachie Avil and Poletti, Declan Archer as Joe Lolley announces his return as King of the A-League in the Big Blue, Adelaide pull off a miraculous victory over City and the rest of the Round 5 action in the A-League! Then there's the Australian Championship quarter-finals and Kevin Muscat going back to back in China!
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Join Lachie Avil and Jacob Stevens as the pair update the Round Ball Australia rolling Socceroos World Cup squad tier list after a disappointing November window against Venezuela and Colombia.
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Join Lachie Avil and Matt Olsen as Australia fall 3-0 to Colombia in New York, a string of amazing results close out confederation qualifying for the 2026 World Cup - including our very own Graham Arnold's Iraq and the Australian Championship is set to launch a new form of avideo review system.Music: Sunsetter © 2023 by Shane Ivers is licensed under CC BY 4.0.Photo: Socceroos - X
Join Lachie Avil and Jacob Stevens on the anniversary of the penalty to qualified Australia for just their second Men's World Cup and their fist in 32 years in 2005.
The guys launch into a discussion on what that moment means for them and the game, before turning their eyes to the present day to discuss the Socceroos' 1-0 loss to Venezuela and their upcoming clash against Colombia.
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Join Lachie Avil, Matt Olsen and Jacob Stevens as the Socceroos prepare to take on Venezuela in Texas on Saturday afternoon. Graham Arnold readies his Iraq team for a two-legged tie against the UAE in the final phase of AFC World Cup qualification and the PFA release their annual report into the A-League Women's competition.
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In this video, Lachie is joined by Vince Rugari - author of Angeball and sports reporter with the Sydney Morning Herald.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:30 Ange at Forrest
12:40 What’s next for Ange
16:05 The disciples of Ange
26:50 Popovic and Socceroos
31:30 Young Socceroos at U20 World Cup
34:50 Australian Championship
38:40 Vince’s idea for a Championship/A-League competition
48:30 OFC Pro League
53:10 Serie A in Perth
55:25 Total A-Leagues
Join Lachie Avil, Jacob Stevens and another pod debutant, Declan Archer as Wellington just can't quite get an equaliser over the line against 9-man Auckland in the New Zealand Derby, while Sydney and Brisbane light it up in their properly-sized venues on Sunday afternoon.
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Join Lachie Avil, Jacob Stevens and pod debutant Oscar Burke for a review of the midweek AFC action and a look ahead to two massive derbies in round 4 of the A-League!
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Join Lachie Avil and Jacob Stevens for a look over round three in the 2025/26 A-League season!
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